Wed, Aug-13-03, 04:37
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Plan: Muscle Centric
Stats: 238/152/160
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Progress: 110%
Location: UK
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Have just come across what The Times has to say about Atkins today:
Atkins dieters risk cancer, heart and bone problems
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FOLLOWERS of the high-fat Atkins diet are gambling with their health at unknowable odds, a leading nutritionist said yesterday.
The regime, in which dieters swap fruit, bread and pasta for steak and a full English breakfast, has started a slimming revolution. But it is based on pseudoscience and may be harmful, according to Susan Jebb, of the Medical Research Council Human Nutrition Research Centre in Cambridge.
She said that while the estimated two million Britons who had tried the diet might shed a few pounds at first, there was no scientific evidence that it was safe in the long term — or that the weight would stay off.
Plenty of studies had indicated potential dangers ranging from painful kidney and bone disorders to cancer and heart disease, as well as bad breath. Devotees are risking their health for the sake of a svelte figure that will almost certainly be transitory, Dr Jebb said.
Plenty of studies had indicated potential dangers ranging from painful kidney and bone disorders to cancer and heart disease, as well as bad breath. Devotees are risking their health for the sake of a svelte figure that will almost certainly be transitory, Dr Jebb said.
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What absolute rot - and WHAT STUDIES ?????????? no references given, no actual studies named !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Suggest everyone email The Times as per their request:
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